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Cuban associations. But the efforts of Hubert and Griffin were blocked by
the CIA and discouraged by others on the Commission staff." 476
Kantor suggests that "Ruby and Oswald probably didn't know each
other; yet both could have been used as separate parts of a conspiracy to
commit murder in Dallas on the weekend of November 22-24, 1963. Oswald
on Friday. Ruby on Sunday. Two men separately manipulated by the same
power. After they were arrested and jailed, both men said they had been
manipulated. 'I'm a patsy,' said Oswald. 'I've been used for a purpose,' said
Ruby. 477
Despite Kantor's observations to the contrary, we have seen evidence
(in Chapter 11, for example) that Ruby did almost assuredly know Lee
Harvey Oswald and that Ruby did indeed participate in matters relating to the
assassination. Whether Ruby—and Oswald—did, in fact, know that the
assassination of Kennedy was in planning is another story.
A CONSPIRACY AGAINST CONNALLY?
Michael Milan, who has written of his role in working as part of a
secret U.S. government team collaborating with the Lansky Syndicate says
there were at least several people operating in Dallas who believed that they
were not involved in a conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy, but, instead, in a
conspiracy to kill Texas Governor John B. Connally. According to Milan,
he (Milan) played a part in the JFK assassination cover-up. Milan claims
that following the assassination he was dispatched to Dallas by J. Edgar
Hoover himself. Milan's assignment was to kill a cab driver named
Brinkman. Milan met with Brinkman and began questioning him.
When Milan asked who set up the shooting, Brinkman said, "I never
met the guy before I was introduced to him by this broad at [Jack Ruby's]
Carousel Club. And I didn't shoot nobody. There was me and two other
guys. We weren't even after the president. We were supposed to shoot the
governor, but things happened too fast. They were gone before anybody did
anything. I think there were two other guys doin' what I was supposed to
do. But I don't know who they are or where they was when the shooting
started. We was just supposed to shoot at the governor when they passed
and get out of there. That's all. But nuthin' happened. I mean, everything
happened and I just got outta there fast." 478
Milan completed his assignment and killed Brinkman. When he returned
to Washington he was met at the airport, he says, by Hoover who said,
"You already know too much. So I'll just say: Johnson. No doubt. We
stand away. Do you get it?" 479
Is it conceivable, perhaps, that Jack Ruby was not consciously involved
in a plot that he believed was aimed at John F. Kennedy, but at John B.
Connally instead? Can the same thing be said for Oswald? Is it possible that
the two men were being manipulated as part of an even bigger conspiracy
that they knew nothing about? This is all speculation, but it is something
to consider.